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van der Aa
Scheeps-Togt door Ferdinand Magellaan


Certificate of Authentication


This is to certify that the item illustrated and described below is a genuine antique
map, print or book that was first produced and published in 1706, today 318 years ago.
March 28, 2024

Dr Leendert Helmink, Ph.D.
Cartographer(s)

van der Aa

First Published

Leiden, 1706

This edition

1706 or later

Size

15.5 x 22.0 cms

Technique

Copper engraving

Stock number

18798

Condition

excellent

Antique map of the Pacific by van der Aa
Antique map of the Pacific by van der Aa

Description

Important and decorative map illustrating the epic first circumnavigation of the world by Ferdinand Magellan from 1519-1522. The map shows the track from Sanlucar de Barrameda, through the strait that bears his name, the crossing of the Pacific and the landfalls in the Far East.

The map has a very spectacular cartouche with the great explorer himself, natives from South America and the Philippines. The scene in the lower left depicts his death at the hands of Mactan warriors near Cebu.

A globe, Jacob's staff and a compass are in the foreground.



Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733)


Records show that van der Aa, born in Leiden in 1659, made an early start in life by being apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of nine and starting his own in business as a book publisher by the time he was twenty-three.

During the following fifty years he published an enormous amount of material including atlases and illustrated works in every shape and size, two of them consisting of no less than 27 and 28 volumes containing over 3,000 maps and plates.

(Moreland & Bannister).